Baking Cookies As Wholesome Family Fun

Baking with your children is one of the best known family-bonding moments. Time spent together in teaching and learning allows you to spend quality time with them that will create a wholesome family fun and enjoyment.

Baking cookies with any or all of your children is entertaining. Cookies are versatile, handy, sweet and fun to make. They can be made in different versions, flavors, sizes and designs kids will like doing. Just prepare the dough in the evening and bake them the next morning. Older children can read the recipe while adults can guide them on what steps to take. Small children will enjoy rolling the dough into balls and flatten it with a fork, similar to making peanut butter cookies. They most likely will love the cookies all the more.

One of the main ingredients that can enhance your cookie is cornstarch. It plays a big role in many food recipes, especially when added to dough. In fact, most baked recipes in the 20th century used corn starch in conjunction with flour. Bakers discovered cookies baked with cornstarch have a notably fine texture with more tender crumbs, compared to cookies baked with flour alone.

In 1892, Argo Corn Starch was launched. It continued to be the source of much conjecture even to the present. Upon its merge with Kingsford in 1899, its experts created recipes bearing this wonderful discovery of corn starch to food.

Here is a simple and delicious cookie recipe that will bring you and your children a batch of fun to bake.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 1/3 cups Argo or Kingsford's Corn Starch
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups butter or margarine
• 2/3 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• Lemon peel, finely shredded

Procedure:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, beat butter until softened. Add the powdered sugar.
• Beat until well combined.
• Add lemon peel and vanilla. Beat well.
• In a medium bowl, stir together flour and corn starch, add to mixture and beat well.
• Roll dough into 1-inch balls. Let your kids to do this, they will love it.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Press each ball with the tines of a fork to create subtle design.
• Bake for about 15 minutes, or until bottoms are lightly browned.
• Cool on wire racks.

Makes six dozen Lemon Shortbread cookies that can be enough fun to go around for everyone.